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Golden Gate National Recreation Area
The Enduring Aramai
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VIEW FROM WAYSIDE: The wayside is set in a corner of the boardwalk. Behind the wayside is the wooden fence of the boardwalk and the flat scrubby grassland that leads up to the rolling hills in the distance. Depending on the time of year, the grassland can be covered in brightly colored wildflowers. In the dryer, winter season, the landscape is more browns and greens.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Arroyo Sequit
- Type: Place
Accessed from Mulholland Highway, Arroyo Sequit features an intermittent stream, a loop trail, and meadows that are blanketed with wildflowers in the Spring. Arroyo Sequit is a small site that may be easy to overlook, but provides for intimate, relaxing strolls. It is also a favorite among evening stargazers, but contact the National Park Service to find out about accessing the site after hours.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi
- Type: Place
Guevavi is a name derived from the O'odham word for big spring, ge'e vavi, or big well, gu waihe. This settlement of O'odham people was first visited in January 1691 by Catholic Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. It became a pivotal location in the Pima Revolt of 1751.
American Battlefield Protection Program
The Hard Reality of Fort Pillow: Interpreting the Massacre of US Colored Troops in 1864
- Type: Article
With assistance from the NPS American Battlefield Protection Program’s Battlefield Interpretation Grant, Fort Pillow State Historic Park seeks to enhance battlefield interpretation through an augmented reality (AR) mobile application and interpretive waysides. The project aims to preserve and enhance the historic integrity of the battlefield, while also making it more accessible and engaging to modern audiences.
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The Puente Río Inabón (Inabón River Bridge), in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2024 for the important role it played in transportation in Puerto Rico. The bridge is a great example of the innovative application of reinforced concrete as a construction material in the early years of the 20th century, showing its dexterity, malleability and resilience in a subtle Neoclassical Revival style.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Alta San Rafael
- Type: Place
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Sonoran Desert National Monument
- Type: Place
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Pueblo del Arroyo
- Type: Place
Located 5 1/2 miles from the Visitor Center on the 9-mile Canyon Loop Drive. The trail through Pueblo del Arroyo is 1/4 mile, roundtrip. It is graveled, and climbs several short, steep rises. Assistance is recommended for persons using wheelchairs.
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Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Yelm Kingman was one of the first women to make significant contributions to understanding the archeological past of Rocky Mountain National Park. Her next position was at Mesa Verde National Park, where she wore several hats. Betty published and delivered papers on archeology. After leaving NPS, Betty continued to participate in professional societies and worked as a science librarian until her retirement.
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
Rio Grande Overlook at Arroyo San Francisco
- Type: Place
Many cultures have crossed this stretch of the Rio Grande River, and many nations have claimed it. In the 1700s, Spanish colonists settled along the river at Villa de Dolores and Revilla. In the early 1800s, Mexican landowners established ranches on both banks. This overlook provides an expansive view of the river and landscape.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Helena AR, Trail of Tears
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The Delta Cultural Center and the exhibits on the Helena Levee walk have content about Indian Removal. Helena residents of the 1830s watched tens of thousands of Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Chickasaw pass by as they traveled south on the Mississippi River. Unlike the river today, during Indian Removal is was dangerous for a variety of reasons from sickness onboard and low river levels to fires and explosions on the steamboats.
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A drive through the Arroyo Seco is a ride through history. Some call the Arroyo Seco Parkway the starting point for Los Angeles car culture. It was the first “freeway” in the West and an engineering marvel of its time. Add to that the distinction and imprint of historic Route 66 and you have the makings for the perfect adventure by car.
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With its majestic arches rising 150 feet above the deeply cut Arroyo Seco, the Colorado Street Bridge was proclaimed the highest concrete bridge in the world upon completion in 1913. The bridge impressed travelers from the day it opened.
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As it moves across the State of New Mexico, U.S. Highway 66 generally follows the region’s traditional east-west transportation corridor through the center of the State along the 35th Parallel. The topography of this route had always presented special challenges to New Mexican road builders even before the coming of Route 66 in 1926.
Kenai Fjords National Park
Harding Ice Cap Camp
- Type: Article
In the spring of 1970, The Fish House News advertised round trip tickets from Seward to the Harding “Ice Cap” for $15.00 per person. Jackie and Joe Stanton, owners of Harbor Air, and Jim Arness of Nikiski partnered to provide this unique sightseeing experience. Ten Ski-Doos and three Ski-Boose awaited visitors on top of the ice field where they could be rented for $7.00 an hour.
- Type: Place
WAYSIDE PANEL TITLE: A Story of Sustainable Living. PANEL DESCRIPTION: The wayside faces east, on the east side of the trail.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Salvo Soundside Beach
- Type: Place
Salvo Day Use Area has sandy sound-front beaches, plenty of parking, and seasonally opened restroom facilities. The comfort station has two changing bays, an outdoor shower, and two pit-style restrooms.The area is ideal for watersport lovers, including kayakers, kiteboarders, windsurfers, and stand-up paddle boarders. It is also a good playground for young families, where the gentler, warmer waters of the Pamlico Sound are perfect for splashing around and playing in. There ar
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Riparian Glade
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Willow riparian forests are associated with stream banks and the edges of ponds and lakes. The forest here is dominated by arroyo willow, Pacific wax myrtle and creek dogwood, which grow as small trees. Ferns, sedges and rushes are found on the forest floor as well as the bright yellow seep monkey flower. Riparian forests are home to a variety of warblers and other small songbirds.
Grand Canyon National Park
1914 Metz Car
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To the bottom of the Grand Canyon by automobile was probably the most strenuous undertaking ever carried out in the annals of American motoring. To make that trip and to return to the plateau thousands of feet above, all on the car's own power, negotiating deep sand arroyos, frightfully steep grades, great boulder filled gorges and slimy mud flats, is a feat extraordinary.
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The Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District is made up of the 11 mile-long section of the First Transcontinental Railroad that passes through Niles Canyon between the towns of Sunol and Fremont (Niles), north of San Jose, California.